Published on 12, July, 2020
In a response to a fairly recent thread on how to deal with chuggers I suggested saying nothing and showing an autism alert card as possible tactic. I tried it out a few days ago. I was stopped twice by different chuggers, for the first I entered into a discussion about how I was unwilling to extend my charity donations any further. The second time I said absolutely nothing but showed the person my autism alert card, it worked like a dream, no discussion, all over in a couple of seconds. Result!
I pretend to be on my phone, talking. I just mouth " sorry i'm on the phone or just smile" and keep walking